Qashqai people

Qashqai (قشقایی, also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī, by Michael Knüppel, by Gerhard Doerfer and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz Turkic group of people living mainly in the Fars Province of Southern Iran. 
Language
Their language is regarded as an independent third group of dialects within the Southwestern Turkic language group by the Encyclopædia Iranica. It is known to speakers as Turki. Estimates of the number of Qashqai speakers vary between 1.6–2.5 million.Victoria R. Williams: Indigenous Peoples: An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival. 4 Bände. ABC-CLIO, 2020, p. 895.Muhittin Çelik, Hüseyin Gökçe (2021): Kaşkayların Türk Kültürü İçerisindeki Yeri [The Position of Qashqais in Turkish Culture], Journal of Oghuz Turkish Studies, doi:10.52817/oguztad.980646 
Origin
The Qashqai are thought to trace its origins to the Bronze Age tribe Kashka/Kaska (also Kaška or Kaskian) of the Ancient Near East.H.M. Hubey: "A Story of Life & Death and Love & War", in: Studia Turkologia, Воронежский Тюркологический сворник [Voronezh Türkological Symposium], Voronezh, 2008. - Vol.7-8. page 57.
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Category:Ethnic groups in Iran